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Louis de Freycinet was born in 1779

Freycinet voyaged around the world in 1817-20, unusually accompanied by his wife Rose after she was able to pass as a man to be allowed on the ship

The ship, the L'Uranie was wrecked on the Falkland Islands in Feb 1820

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2019-08-07

Getting hammered this weekend?

from ‘Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte’ by Gottleib Tobias Wilhelm (1799-1800)

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2019-08-03

When is a shark not a shark? When it’s a ghost shark

Ghost sharks are actually fish, whose closest living relatives are sharks

‘Ghost shark’, I’ve just discovered, is also the name of a B-grade horror movie that I DEFINITELY want to watch

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2019-08-02

When the existential crisis hits...

continues with this spinous from ‘A history of the fishes of the British Islands’ by Jonathan Couch (1862-65)

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2019-08-01

Sometimes get into our This critter lives in an book published in Paris, likely copied from art: https://t.co/tcwRMBid4F. We're over the insect's summer style—perfectly matches its pink & green plant!

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2019-07-28

It's season! Savor these sweet perpetually ripening in our collection. Jane Elizabeth Giraud painted this in her manuscript "The Fête of the Page through the whole volume: https://t.co/GFCcNMrv23.

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2019-07-24

Me on Friday after exercising and eating well all week VS. me on Sunday after blowing out all weekend

from 'The natural history of monkeys' by Sir William Jardine (1833) - not currently on btw so I'll get it in the queue!

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2019-07-19

Ready for some summer strawberries this weekend? These are from Joseph Descaisne’s (1807-1882) “Le Jardin Fruitier du Museum...” 🍓#botanicalart

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2019-07-12

Some very exotic bugs from the for the challenge 🦋🐛🐜

These beauties are from Dru Drury's 'Illustrations of exotic entomology' (1837)

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2019-07-10

What a day! Today has been a massive test, and happily I didn’t balls up my talk

I’m pooped now though, can’t wait to hit the sack

To cap it all off, I just realised I’ve tipped over 1000 followers! I’ve been saving this one...

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2019-07-06

Oh hi hive mind

Does anyone recognise this on the of a copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses, (Paris, 1583)?

Bodleian shelfmark: Buchanan g.32

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2019-06-26

I’m having a very slow day today - how about you?

Common garden snails from George Shaw’s ‘Naturalists miscellany’ with by Frederick Polydore Nodder (1790)

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2019-06-22

Add marbled endpapers to the list of book-related things I want to learn how to do

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2019-06-17

Artists Illustrate The White Whale presents 28 screen prints & engravings by Frank Convey, Will Maclean, Debbie Lee & more, illustrating classic tale. On view this Mon during our sale viewing. Learn more: https://t.co/di3WEbU5R8

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2019-06-15

‘The triumph of Venus’ by JF Barrias was exhibited in the 1889 Paris Exhibition, and this photochrome reproduction was published in the exhibition’s catalogue ‘Chefs-d’oeuvre de l’exposition universelle de Paris, 1889’ by William Walton

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2019-06-15

Feeling fruity and ready for the weekend!

Another weird and wonderful creature from Seba’s ‘Thesaurus’ (1734-1765)

copy digitised by for 👉🏼 https://t.co/Gxf6fGt3f6

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2019-06-13

You know the old saying: when a rare book gives you lemons, go ahead and post those lemons on Twitter 🍋

My little tree is slightly further along than the illustration. Any suggestions for things I can make this weekend to use up some lemons?

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2019-06-13

“Refusal to be put upon” & “Cheerfulness in the face of adversity” - 2 illustrations by author & illustrator, known for his humorous cartoon drawings, from a collection to be offered in our 19 June sale in https://t.co/lKKuQLfKvE

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2019-06-12

Wow, I'm as happy as this musk shrew as I just noticed I've now got over 900 followers on here!

This happy chappy is from 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' by Schreber (1774)

I've been saving something very weird for when I get to 1000 by the way...

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2019-06-11